Two years after Thomas Edison invented motion pictures, Nevada produced the nation’s first blockbuster movie. The film of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prizefight, produced in Carson City in 1897, which also is considered the first movie documentary, […]
Days after seeing “Joe Bell,” I am still pondering this amazing film. It’s a movie with such intense, thoughtful acting, such compelling yet tragic characters and such a thought-provoking story that I just cannot shake […]
The latest exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, which celebrates its 90th birthday this year, takes a look back at the birth of the city’s longest-existing art institution. The exhibit, “The Latimer School: Lorenzo […]
The second half of Artown 2021 features nationally-known music acts, world-wide cultural connections, kids’ activities, workshops, hundreds of films and art exhibits through the end of July. The 25-year-old annual festival defines summer in the […]
While in lockdown during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeanmarie Simpson followed the example set by Shakespeare while he hunkered down in quarantine during a plague: she wrote a play. “I was stuck in […]
After pivoting to virtual events during last year’s pandemic lockdown, Artown is roaring back in July with 400 events by artists and community organizations in nearly every creative genre. The festival, now in its 25th […]
On the patio of a Sparks nightclub, fantastical masks peer from the walls, presided over by an 8-foot-tall figure of La Catrina, the elegant skeleton who presides over the Day of the Dead in Mexico. […]
The cancer diagnosis that came after several other setbacks in Andrea “Drea” Kitchen’s life six years ago nearly tipped the 36-year-old Reno mom over the edge of despair. That’s when art, her long-time hobby, emerged […]
Reno’s stages have been vacant since March 2020, but that’s about to change. The Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., announced its Broadway Comes to Reno season starting in the fall, […]
From this Reno arts’ writer’s perspective, the words of the year for 2020 were “catastrophe” and “resilience.” To put it mildly, the pandemic wrought havoc on the arts industry. At this point, the impact is […]
Jason Statham first came to my attention when he made the movie, “The Transporter.” I look forward to seeing any film he is in for the relief from reality with a payback sensibility his films […]
Art springs anew in Reno, even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. A powerful force in area arts, Sierra Arts Foundation has grown stronger in the last year. The foundation not only survived the […]
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